but according to the meaſure of illumination which he hath re- ceived. f Tet he himſclf :5 judged of no man, 1t may as well be tranſlated of nothing, and thete:m indged might as well have been tranſlated examined, or ſearchca, as itis in AZ: 4. 9. and 12. 19. and 17. 11. ani 24.8. or cortermncd, The witdom that is of God 35 not to be ſubjected to the wiſdom of men, nor to be judged of any man, butonly the ſpiritual man. The truth, which the ſpiri- ual mar: owneth and profeſierh, dependeth only upon God and his Word, and is 55: ſubjected to the authority and judgment of men, nor the dift:cesof humane reaſon: So asthe ſpiritual man ſo far forth as he '- jviritual,is neither judged by any man, or by any thing. There z:e ſome that by be himſelf underſtand the Spirit of God, he indeed #« judged of no man, nor any :hing ; butthatſeemeth a much more {rained ſenſe. :
16 * For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he + may inſtru& him? g But we have the mind of
g This Phraſe is taken out of 7/s. 40. 13. 2nd wasquoted by our Apoſtle before, Rom. v1. 34. the ſenſe of it as here uſed, is, for what natural man that never was taught and inlightned by the Spirit of God, could ever know tke {ccrer Counſels of God, and the Divine Myſteries of msn's Salvation. Nor can any inſtru& him what :odo. Ir is by ſome obſerved, that ovuſubnry. ſignifies by arguments to bring one over to be of his mind, which js a kind of ivftruQtion. + (But faith the Apoſtle) we who have che Spirit of God givento us, dwel'ing and working in us, and in- Airu&ing us, we have the mind of Cirift ; for che Spirit of Chriſt, which is our Teacher, knoweth lis mind, and bath revealed it Uuiito Us,
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Mitk fit for Children : Strife and Diviſion, a# Argument of a fleſhly Mind. 1--4. Mniſters arc nothing of themſelves but fellow workers with God, 5—9. Chriſt is the Foundation en whom they ſhould build, wat Nay, &c. but Gold, &c. and feel! be vewara:d atcording- ly. 10--15. The Corinthians were rhe Temvle of God, which muſt not be vielated by Diviſions. 16, 17. The Wiſas7 of Men Foolifhneſs before Gid, 18—20. The uſe href 21—23.
I Nd, I brethren, could not ipeak unto you as un- to ſpiricual a, but as unto Carnal 5, ever as unto babes in Chrift c. , a4 The Apoltle plainly returneth in this Chapter to reprove them Por their diviſion; and fa#/on;, for which he had began to reprove them, Chap. 1. v. 11. and (as ſome think) herehe anticipaterh an objeQtion, which they might have made againſt him, againſt his reproving and judging of them, whe-n as ho that is ſpiritual (as he | had now ſaid) 75 judged of m0 man, I ( faith he) brethren, could not ſpeak unto you as ſpiritual, that is, as to Chriſtians, who had made any great proficiency in the ways of God, and h11 arrived to any juſt degrees of Spiritual perfeGion. 6 But as unto coral, that 1s, perſons, who though you are not under the tui! condu& and government of your fiſh and /:nſi:rve apprtite, yer are far trom be. ing perfe&t, either in Faith or Holineſs ; in Chriff indeed but not +$ grown men, but as babes, as the Apoſt'e fully explainerh chis term. Hcb. 5.12.13. Such 2s had need betaugh: again, which are the firſt principles of the Oracles of God, and have ned of milk, and not of ſtrong meat ; for every one that uſ:th milk, is unskilfull in the word of righteouſneſs, for he is a babe. 2 1] have fed you * with milk, and not with meat 4d:
hicherto ye were not able ro bear it e, neither yet
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a Miik ſignifies what the Apoſtle ro the Hebreews calls the #-/?
principles of the Oracles of Ged, and fo is oppoſed ro ſublime ſpiri- | gives the increaſe, which arguesthe neceflity of ſpecial Grait boek rua] Do&rineshere ſet out under the notion of ar, called ſtrong | to Converſiom and Ed:fication, ſuperadded to the beſt preachingol bis As young Childrens | Miniſters. Though*Parl himſelfby preaching plants, and vie watereth, yet God muſt make the ſoul to increaſe with the increaſe ritual Myfteries fit for new Converts, until they have ſenſes exec. | of God. Hence the Apoſtle argueth their unreaſonablenels, 11 + cited tO diſcern good and evil ; and therefore the Apoſtle gives | doring one Miniſter, and magnifying him above another, this as a reaſon, why he had nor commanicared the deep things of | indeed neither rhe one nor the other had any principal eftenncy God to them, becauſe e as yet they had nor been ableto bear the | in the produttion of the bleſſed effe&, but a meer inftcomentaleas | It ſhould ſeem rhat |ſation, the effe& of which depended upon the ſole bleſſing of (9d, there were many in the Church of Corinth, who though they were [in compariſon with whom in this working, neither the one, true Ciriſizans, yet were not grown and judicious Chriſtians, but |the other Miniſter, was any thing.
»7:a7, Heb... 14. fit for theſe of full age. ftomachs will not endure ſtrong meat, ſo neither are {ſublime ſp. notion of them ; nor indeed wire? hey yer able.
pet / "i imperfections, as indeed it will further appear ir this : piite.
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of the Goſpel, that for his ſake they vilified and deſpiſeq alon :
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or in reſpe of the moreſultableneſs of ane Man's gifts # to j capacities than another : but their adherence fo to one Tg
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